
Claude Opus 4.8 tops Appwrite Arena: the June 2026 leaderboard update
Claude Opus 4.8 takes #1 on Appwrite Arena's without-skills board at 97.4%, the first model to beat Claude Opus 4.7, in a June update that adds four new frontier models.

Claude Opus 4.8 takes #1 on Appwrite Arena's without-skills board at 97.4%, the first model to beat Claude Opus 4.7, in a June update that adds four new frontier models.

Build a Snapchat-style app with Appwrite's Presences API and Realtime, using TanStack Start, TablesDB, Functions, and Storage. Friends drop pins on a globe and send each other photos that expire in 24 hours.

A detailed look at Gemini 3.5 Flash: what shipped at Google I/O 2026, pricing, Google's own benchmark table, Artificial Analysis numbers, and how it scores on the Appwrite Arena benchmark.

Appwrite Sites now supports Bun and Deno as build runtimes for every Node-based framework, with Bun 1.0 through 1.3 and Deno 1.40 through 2.6 available in the build runtime dropdown.

A detailed breakdown of the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud attack on TanStack npm packages, how GitHub Actions cache poisoning and OIDC trusted publishing were abused, what the malware tried to steal, and how developers should respond.

Explore three workloads that play to the Rust runtime's strengths, including image optimization, PDF generation, and HMAC-verified webhooks.

Kimi K2.6 from MoonshotAI ranks #3 without skills and #4 with skills on Appwrite Arena, in a refresh that swaps in eleven current frontier models and hardens the benchmark runner.

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits across paid plans, dropped peak-hour throttling for Pro and Max, and lifted API rate limits for Opus. The compute behind it comes from a new SpaceX deal.

Learn how to give apps built with Claude Code a reliable backend with Appwrite. Create a project, set up an API key, install the Appwrite Claude Code plugin, and let your agent build authentication, databases, and storage for you.

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026. Here's a source-backed look at benchmarks, pricing versus GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.7, the system card, and where the model still falls short.

Learn how to ship a production-ready waitlist page with Vite, React, and Appwrite, including unique email validation and clean error handling.

We ran 100,000 listRows calls per phase against a 10,000-row table, with and without TTL caching, to measure the latency gains. The results were more decisive than we expected.

The Appwrite plugin for Claude Code bundles agent skills and MCP servers into a single install, so your Claude Code agent can build with Appwrite out of the box.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a sandbox, found zero-days in Firefox, and solved a 10-hour corporate pentest autonomously. Here's why they chose not to release it.

The Appwrite plugin for Cursor bundles agent skills, MCP servers, and deployment commands into a single install, so your AI agents can build with Appwrite out of the box.

Learn how to build a real-time ride-hailing app using Appwrite's Geo Queries and Realtime features with Next.js and Leaflet maps.

Learn how NoSQL for unstructured data handles text, images, and embeddings in AI applications and why it outperforms relational databases for modern AI pipelines.

Learn why MongoDB is a strong fit for scaling AI workloads, covering high-velocity data ingestion, horizontal scaling, flexible schemas, and how Appwrite makes it faster to build on top.

Learn how to self-host Appwrite with MongoDB as the database backend using the new installation wizard.

Learn how to build a notes app where an admin can impersonate users to view and manage their private data using Appwrite's user impersonation feature.

Appwrite Skills are open source markdown files that give AI agents deep, language-specific knowledge of Appwrite SDKs. Install once, and your agents generate correct Appwrite code automatically.

Learn how to efficiently capture, store, and serve webpage screenshots without wasting resources or slowing down your app.

Next.js isn't just React with extra steps. Learn when server-side rendering actually matters and how to use it properly with Appwrite.

Learn about different output modes in Next.js and find out which of them would be the best for you.

Learn how race conditions can occur while running operations on your Appwrite database and how operators can help avoid them.

Learn how to deploy a TanStack Start app to Appwrite Sites.

Learn how to use Claude Code to its full potential.

Learn how to use spatial columns in a real-world application.

Learn how to implement Google authentication in Expo React Native.

Learn how to choose between client and server components in React.

Learn how to set up Google OAuth2 authentication in your app.

Learn how to make the best use of Appwrite’s MCP server.

Learn how to deploy a Next.js app to Appwrite Sites.